And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new,.... That is, on the day they came out on their journey:and, behold, they be rent; which were owing to the long use that had been made of them, as they pretended:and these our garments, and our shoes, are become old by reason of the very long journey: quite worn out through length of time and tedious travels.
Isidore of Pelusium thinks these Gibeonites were Cappadocians, of whom he gives a shocking character, and particularly that they were prone to lying and deceit; but his reason for it, that they were of the Philistines, will not hold good.
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